The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-11-10

PNEUMONIA
4 9olontlfio and Accurate pescrlp.
uon OF This Dreaded Blood
Disorder.
1T . generally supposed that pneu.
monia i due to the accidental pene.
trailing Of specific microbes into the
system, but the observations of NJ.
Jaccoud show that the disease really
results from the development. under
favorable conditions, Of microbic
germs permanently present in the
system. A chief condition of such
development Is q sudden chill, which
explains the frequent coincidence of
lung affections with abrupt changes
OF temperature" -Scientific Ameri.
can.
Another prominent (American) au-
thority ascribes pneumonia to an ex.
cess OF ozone. ozone being produced
by passage of electricity in the air.
: A distinguished American physician
tells the New York. Tribune that the
prevalence Of pneumonia indicates the
universally OF q uric-acid condition of
the blood.-sudden chills always being
characteristic effects of too much acid
OF one sort and another.
The disease, as NJ. Jaccoud observes,
is undoubtedly in the blood, but if in
the form OF permanent microbes or
germs. these germs must be developed
BY the uric-acid condition of the blood.
Indeed. they cannot presumably exist
in alkaline blood. Uric-acid is the name
for the waste matter of the system,
which the kidneys, through evident
though unexpected impairment,
have not been able to filter from the
blood,-the filter being foul and stop.
ped up in many OF it's little hair.like
tubes.
The Tribune's authority says that
pneumonia is secondary disorder,
the exposure and cold being simply
the agents which develop the disease,
already dormant in the system, be.
cause the kidneys have been but
partially doing their duty. In short,
pneumonia is but an early indication
OF bright's diseased condition. This
impaired action may exist for years
without the patient suspecting it, be-
cause no pain will be felt in the kid
neys or their vicinity, and often it can
be detected only by chemical and mi.
croscopical examinations. Nearly
$50 of the TAO deaths in New York
City the first week in recent March,
and in SIX weeks 781 deaths, were
caused by pneumonia alone.
If hoo os~rn1 n1,s111 g.
yer: tendency to colds in the throat
and lungs, rheumatic and neuralgia
pains, extreme tired feelings, short
breath aud pleuritic stitches in the
side, loss OF appetite, backache, nerv-
Gus understanding sensations or
scant and discolored fluids, heart fut-
terings, sour stomach, distressed look,
puffy eye sacs, hot and dry skin, loss
OF strength and virility, pneumonia is
likely to strike him down any day,
and his recovery will be doubtful.
These indications may not ap-
pear together, they may come. disap-
pear and re-appear, for years, the per-
son not realizing that they are natures
WARNINGS OF coming calamity.
The disease is very quick-acting and
/ It the accompanying kidney disorder
! Is very far advanced, recovery is i'm
possible, for the kidneys give out en-
tirely, and the patient is literally
suffocated by water.
The only safeguard against pneumo-
MIA is to maintain q vigorous condi-
ton OF the system and thus prevent
attacks, by using whatever will radi-
cally and eftectually restore full vi
tally to the kidneys, and for this
there is othing equal to Warmers safe
cure. II the kidneys are not sound
pneumonia cannot be prevented.
This remedy IS known to millions,
used, probably, by hundreds of thou
sands all over the globe, and com.
mended as a standard specific wher-
ever known AID used. 1t does not
| pretend to cure an attack of pneumo-
MIA, bur it does remove the cause OF,
| and prevent that disease If taken in
time.
When physician says his patient
| has either bright's disease or pneumo-
mia, he confesses his inability to cure,
and in a measure he considers his re.
sponsiLility ended. In many in
stances, indeed, persons are re-
ported as dying of pneumonia, heart
disease, apoplexy and commissions,
when the real cause of death. and so
known by the physicians, is this kid
ney consumption. Thousands of peo-
ple have it without knowing it, and
perish OF it because their physicians
will not tell them the facts.
The same destiny awaits every one
who will not exercise his judgment in
such q matter and be true to himself,
his family and to society.